WordPress and Genesis: Customizing Themes (2014)

Genesis allows you to create elegant, secure, and keyword-rich child themes for your WordPress sites. In this course, Carrie Dils takes apart the framework so you can understand the structure and start customizing your own child themes with Genesis. Learn how to set up a development environment and use action hooks to change not only how your theme looks, but also how it behaves. Carrie also shows how to make some of her clients' most-requested theme customizations.

Topics include:

• Setting up your development environment
• Understanding the child theme template structure
• Working with the Genesis loop
• Working with actions
• Editing theme styles
• Making commonly requested customizations